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LMDE live dvd starts but stalls at the "ready" blinking cursor after initrd loads.Md5s all checked out. Burned a couple different media but the disks all checkout and are compatible with my system. I had no trouble with the Mint 10 (ubuntu)install. Any thoughts?

You could try to add "nomodeset noapic" to the kernel line before boot.

Put the DVD in the drive and boot up. When you get the message "automatic boot in 10 secs":1. Click ENTER to see GRUB menu2. Highlight the Linux Mint entry and press the "e" key3. Use the cursor keys to navigate to the line that ends with "quiet" (kernel line) and add nomodeset noapic, like this:

Actually, the enter key brought no response at all, nor did the escape key or any other key. I thought it might be a usb wireless mouse/keyboard issue, but have never had that problem before. No problems with any other Linux OS install, including Mint 10 (ubuntu), Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse, etc. Very strange!

brobdinag wrote:Actually, the enter key brought no response at all, nor did the escape key or any other key. I thought it might be a usb wireless mouse/keyboard issue, but have never had that problem before. No problems with any other Linux OS install, including Mint 10 (ubuntu), Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse, etc. Very strange!